Bread or Blood (1981)
Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century
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Malcolm StorryIsaac Bawcombe
Carolyn PicklesMary Bawcombe
Ian RedfordBen Jarvis
Sandra VoeMrs Bawcombe
Milton JohnsHarbutt
Sean BakerToomer
George MalpasEllerby
David CalderBensonPhilip JosephCooper
Bryan MurrayPopeSandra KnellerMrs JarvisJon CroftBakerMovie DNA
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Between April and May 1816, "Bread or Blood" riots erupted across East Anglia as the price of bread surpassed the wages of agricultural and industrial laborers. While food riots had a long history in Britain, industrialization, enclosure, and globalization increasingly safeguarded the nation's food supply by the early nineteenth century